How You Learn To Live Alone

First you fall, then you fly

and you believe that you belong

up in the sky.

Flap your arms, as you run,

every revolution brings you closer to the sun.

You fall asleep in motion, in unchartered

hemispheres,

and you wake up with the stars

fallin' down around your ears.

And when they hit the ground,

they're nothin' but stones

that's how you learn to live alone.

That's how you learn to live alone.

Bit by bit, you slip away,

you lose yourself in pieces

by the things that you don't say.

You're not here, but you're still there

The sun goes up and the sun goes down,

but you're not sure you care.

You live inside the false,

till you recognize the truth.

People send you pictures,

but you can't believe it's you.

Seems forever since your house

has felt like home

that's how you learn to live alone

that's how you learn to live alone.

It don't feel right, but it's not wrong.

It's just hard to start again this far along.

Brick by brick, the letting go,

as you walk away from everything you know

When you release resistance

and you lean into the wind,

till the roof begins to crumble,

and the rain comes pourin' in,

And you sit there in the rubble,

till the rubble feels like home

That's how you learn to live alone

that's how you learn to live alone

that's how you learn to live alone